[microSD Card Recording] Page

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This page describes setting procedures related to microSD card recording.

This page can be used during access using “admin” or “operator”.

Click [Advanced Settings] in the side menu, and click [microSD Card Recording].

Press the [OK] button to enable the new settings.

If the [OK] button is pressed upon entering an invalid value, a warning message will appear and the entry will be denied. Press the [Cancel] button to restore the invalid entry to the value before the change was made. If you press the [Cancel] button, other changed items will also be restored to the values before the change was made.

The contents displayed vary according to the value of the selected [Recording Mode].

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Only one channel for the H.264 video data will be recorded to the microSD card. Audio sound is not recorded.

If the status of the [microSD Card] is “No card”, all buttons other than [OK] and [Cancel] cannot be selected.

If microSD card recording is set while FTP recording is in progress, the recording process is interrupted, and a dialog box appears prompting you to switch to microSD card recording. Pressing the [OK] button stops FTP recording and starts microSD card recording.

If FTP recording is set while [microSD Card Recording] is set to “ON”, a dialog box will appear. When this occurs, press the [OK] button to set [Record Status] of [microSD Card Recording] to “OFF”.

Images recorded to the microSD card can be played back on the microSD card operation screen by clicking the [SD Card] button on the Built-in Viewer screen.

[microSD Card] Operation Screen

[Encode Setting] cannot be changed while recording to a microSD card is in progress.

Distribution capability may deteriorate during recording to the microSD card, or playback or video output from the card.

Note

The microSD cards cannot be formatted on this camera. Make use of the SD Formatter (version 4.0 or later) distributed by the SD Association to format the microSD card, followed by inserting the card into the camera.
The SD Formatter is available on the following website.

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/

Settings

Setting values with circle_B are default values.

microSD Card

[Mount]/[Unmount] button

[Mount] button:
Click this button to mount a microSD card to the camera. After the microSD card is mounted, you can access it via the camera to perform operations such as recording data to or playback back data on the card.
When a microSD card is mounted, this button switches to the [Unmount] button display.

[Unmount] button:
Clicking this button stops recording if recording to the microSD card is in progress, and unmounts the card from the camera. After the microSD card is unmounted, recording to or playback of data on the card will not resume until the [Mount] button is pressed again.

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When the power of the camera is turned on with a microSD card inserted, the card will be automatically mounted to the camera.

If you do not want microSD recording to start automatically after powering off and on the camera, or after clicking the [Mount] button, set [Record Status] to “OFF” in advance.

Note

Make sure to press the [Unmount] button before turning off the power of the camera or removing the microSD card,
While writing to the microSD card is in progress, turning off the power or removing the card may damage the data stored inside it.

Status

Displays the mount status of the microSD card.

Mounted:
A microSD card is mounted to the camera. Recording to or playback of data on the card can be performed.

Unmounted:
A microSD card is not mounted to the camera. Recording to and playback of data on the card are disabled.

No card:
A microSD card is not inserted into the camera, or the inserted microSD card cannot be recognized. To enable recording to the microSD card, insert a card that can be recognized by the camera.
For details, refer to Compatible microSD Cards .

Error:
Recording or playback cannot be performed due to an error in the microSD card.

microSD Card Recording

Record Status

Starts/stops recording to the microSD card.

Select “ON” and press the [OK] button to start recording to the microSD card.

Select “OFF” and press the [OK] button to stop recording.

[Set values: ON, OFF]

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This option is available only when [Status] of [microSD Card] is set to [Mounted].

Note

If you want to change the time setting of the camera using any of the following operations, make sure that you stop microSD card recording in advance. Playback may fail if the time of the video recorded in the microSD card overlaps with the time of the camera after changes are made.

When the time setting is changed in “PC Time to Camera” on the [Basic Setting1] page.

[Basic Setting1] Page

When the time setting is changed in “Time” and “PC Time to Camera” on the [Time] page under [Advanced Settings].

[Time] Page

When the time setting is changed in “Time Zone” on the [Time] page under [Advanced Settings].

[Time] Page

Status

This is indicated as “Recording” when recording is in progress, and as “No Recording” when recording is stopped. When only [Alarm] is selected, the status is indicated as “Recording” when an alarm trigger is detected, and as “No Recording” when an alarm trigger is not detected.

Recording Mode

For setting the mode for recording to the microSD card.
You can select [Constant], [Alarm], or [Network Outage].

[Set values: Constant, Alarm, Network Outage]

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When [Record Status] is “ON”, the [Recording Mode] setting cannot be changed.

To change the [Recording Mode], do so after setting [Record Status] to “OFF”, followed by pressing the [OK] button to stop recording.

When [Record Status] is set to “OFF”, [Recording Mode] is restored to the factory default.

Constant

Regardless of whether there is an alarm, recording to the microSD card is performed at all times.
Erases the oldest record data and continues recording when the microSD card is full.

Alarm

Performs recording to the microSD card when a trigger that matches the preset conditions in [Alarm Settings] is detected. The recording duration for an alarm event during the occurrence of an alarm trigger is about 120 seconds in total: 60 seconds before the trigger (pre-trigger) and 60 seconds after the trigger (post-trigger).
Selecting “Alarm” displays the [Alarm Settings] item.

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If a new trigger is detected within approximately 60 seconds after the first trigger is detected, it will not be registered to the event list.

If a new trigger is detected while alarm recording is in progress, the recording duration will be extended by about 60 seconds from the point of detection.

If the recording time of a video data is shorter than 60 seconds, the recording time for the pre-trigger will be less than 60 seconds.

Erases the oldest record data and continues recording when the microSD card is full.

Network Outage

Performs recording to the microSD card when the link between the camera and the network is disconnected.

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If the LAN cable is unplugged while power is supplied via PoE Plus, both the link with the network and the power supply will be disconnected. In this case, recording to the microSD card will not be performed.

Erases the oldest record data and continues recording when the microSD card is full.

Note

There are some network failures that Network Outage.is unable to support.

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Alarm Settings

For setting the corresponding alarm trigger when “Alarm” is selected in [Recording Mode].

Trigger1

For selecting the first trigger for starting alarm recording.

[Set values: Pin Input1 Make, Pin Input1 Break, Pin Input2 Make, Pin Input2 Break, Position, Audio Detection1, Audio Detection2, Motion Detection, Tampering Detection, Day/Night, Time, FAN Stop]

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The “Audio Detection1”, “Audio Detection2”, “Motion Detection”, and “Tampering Detection” settings for the trigger specified in [Trigger1] need to be set to “ON” on the respective settings pages under [Advanced Settings].

If the trigger for [Trigger2] is set to “Disable”, alarm recording starts with only the trigger in [Trigger1].

When “Audio Detection1”, “Audio Detection2”, “Motion Detection”, “Tampering Detection”, “Day/Night”, or “Time” is selected for [Trigger1], [Interval] and [Trigger2] cannot be selected.

Interval

This is available when both [Trigger1] and [Trigger2] are set.
Specify the maximum interval between each trigger for [Trigger1] and [Trigger2].
Starts alarm recording if [Trigger2] occurs within the maximum time interval after [Trigger1] has occurred.

[Set values: 1 to 3600]sec

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If an invalid value is set, a dialog box indicating “Invalid interval” appears. If the interval field is left blank, a dialog box indicating “Interval field is blank” appears.

Trigger2

For selecting the second trigger for starting alarm recording.

[Set values: Disable, Pin Input1 Make, Pin Input1 Break, Pin Input2 Make, Pin Input2 Break]

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If the same setting is specified for [1st Trigger] and [2nd Trigger], a dialog box indicating “Duplicate setting between Trigger 1 and Trigger 2” appears, and alarm recording will not start.

Position Number

For setting the camera’s preset position number.
This is enabled when “Position” is selected for the trigger in [Trigger1].
Executes action recording upon moving to the entered position.

[Set values: 0 to 99]

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Specify the setting for Preset Position in [PTZ Settings] of Built-in Viewer.

[PTZ Settings]

This position parameter is also valid during manual pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) operation or during automatic pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) operations such as Auto Patrol.

Encode Setting

Select the H.264 encoder No. for performing microSD card recording.

Specify the encoding settings in the [Encoding] page.

[Encoding] Page

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Recordable frame rates are limited to 5, 10, 15, and 30 fps. If a frame rate other than those above is specified, a dialog box appears, and recording will not start. If this occurs, review and adjust the settings accordingly.

[Encoding] Page

Set the I-frame interval to a value equivalent to the frame rate. Otherwise, a dialog box will appear.